Hello! I have found a keyword that I like. At first I thought the competition was quite easy, but I got a SEO addon for FireFox and checked most stats on the leading site for the keyword query. It had: *PR6 *300,000 Indexed pages in Google (Does this matter much?) *According to Yahoo! it had about 2000 Inbound Links. *Alexa rank of 40,000 (This can't matter, right?) *The main domain was created at 01Dec 1998 (How much does this matter?) Is this possible/hard to beat this page? Chould I start with an easier keyword? Thanks, Kalle
As with any keyword, you can rank for it, but do you mind waiting and letting your own optimization "sink in". How does your own site measure up to those stats? If you're starting with a brand new site, then expect to wait a year. It won't be impossible, but there are plenty of keywords to target when going after an industry or niche. Don't just choose 1, but 100. Go after 2/3/4 word keyword phrases. Another question you have to ask yourself, is this site just for fun or is this a business for you. Most will probably say, "duh, of course its a business"...but is it really? If so, then treat it like one. If that keyword is profitable, then set your markers and start working on that goal.
I would advise to look at their source code, how much onpage optimization has been done? most top sites usually contain lots of messy coding and dont use h1 tags and relevant titles etc etc. Also is the keyword the index page of the site? or just a page from the site?
What SEO add-on for Firefox are you talking about? I think you should better use some individual tools for your case study in order to get accurate results. Anyway, I am not sure what add-on you are using so I will wait until you can point me to a name and address Regards
Thanks for the help It is just a page from the site. Does it matter much if it is index or a subpage? Another thing, it is a 4 word query. And at the top 10, about five results have very long titles with one to three of the words in that query. The top site got three words in the title, and the second got all four. But theese two belong to the same webpage. Does that make it easier for me to climb? If I set the title of my page to "Keyword Keyword Keyword Keyword", will that be better ranked than "Unrelated Unrelated Keyword Keyword Unrelated", or will both get the same ranking (If we ignore the actuall content)? About the on-page optimization on that site: They had h1 tags for the Title of the article. And for the subheaders, they used strong. And they didn't mark the keywords with <i>, <b>, <u>. So if I did h1 header, subheaders to h2 and marked the keywords some times, but still keep it so it makes sense for the reader, would that be a better onpage optimization? Btw, they had a lot of menus and things on that site, it was very complex. Is it better for the on-page opitimization to have a clean site witch just contains the actuall content that you want to rank for, and just one menu? I appreciate your help, Kalle
Ohh, forgot I use https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3036/. I think it is very nice. Another thing. The pages ranked 20-30 for theese keyword has under 200 Inbound links, one even has 7 Does that mean easy competition? Kalle